Saturday, April 30, 2016

Today, April 29, we hung our sixteenth art quilt show, Courageous Souls, Turbulent Times, at the Unitarian Society of Hartford, 50 Bloomfield Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut. Less than a week ago, we took down our fifteenth show, Soulful Journeys,
which hung at the Windsor Art Center, Windsor, Connecticut, from March
12 to April 23, and which was memorialized on local television http://www.wfsb.com/clip/12373367/turning-quilts-into-works-of-art

This show focuses on social justice issues, a timely theme in this election year.

Here's a look at us as we hung our art quilts today in the ambulatory of this iconic building.

Courageous Souls, Turbulent Times will hang during the month of May 2016 at the Unitarian Society of Hartford. To view the quilts, stop by on a Sunday morning when the building will be open and occupied. But that's not the only time for viewing: for other opportunities, call the Unitarian Society of Hartford's office at 860-233-9897.

Friday, April 22, 2016

We members of the Connecticut Fiber Arts Collective: Not only do we hang together, we get around.

Recently, for example, we co-hosted a meeting of a national group of which we're all a part: the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA). The Connecticut chapter of SAQA meets a few times a year, and our April 2016 meeting took place at the Windsor Art Center, which is also the venue for the Collective's latest exhibit, Soulful Journeys.

Here's a look, not only at some of the folks at that meeting, but also of our work on the wall:

Here's our own Christina Blais, standing on the right in this photo, chairing her first meeting as SAQA's co-chair for Connecticut, an honor she shares with Kelly Chin Caldwell, standing next to her. Both are framed by my quilt, Buddhist Temple I. That's me, seated, center rear, with my head framed by Buddhist Temple II.

We all have so much to learn from one another at these meetings. I think everyone agrees that Show and Tell is the best part.

Here's Dawn Allen with one of her fabulous three-dimensional flowers:

I'm going to let Dawn speak for herself on these beautiful creations, so I'll give you a link to her website:www.dawnallen.net

Here's Dwight Lopes, showing off his marbled fabric. That's his spouse, Maureen Lopes, on the left. This photo is evidence that the author of today's blog post is far from the world's best photographer.